A decent man joins a crowd and screams something he'd never say to a single human being — and the disturbing part is he doesn't feel like he's losing his mind. He feels magnificent. This is an honest anatomy of mob psychology: why some of the worst things people do, they do while feeling like good people, surrounded by good people, all certain they're right. You'll hear the idea traced from Gustave Le Bon's 1895 claim that the crowd subtracts your civilized self and leaves a barbarian, through Solomon Asch's line experiments — where three in four people denied what they could plainly see because the room denied it too — and the Stanford Prison Experiment, now exposed by Thibault Le Texier's archives as coached: a bad proof of a real thing. The modern correction (the Social Identity Model of Deindividuation — Reicher, Spears & Postmes ...